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Platform is a fairly polished game with a new level released every Sunday. The mechanic of having two people you alternate between as you play through adds a decent twist to the standard platformer gameplay..

Plasmaworm

Zdim and company have just ripped the price sticker off of Plasmaworm, the most psychedelic snake game you're ever likely to play. (for which I can even forgive them using "[click] here" as anchor text :)

It's not a patch on their later output (in particular I always had a few issues with the control and collision detection in this game), but it has more than enough niftyness to be worth downloading. I just wish they'd enhanced the editing facilities a little more, so that you could easily create and share entire level sets. IIRC, this wasn't quite supported.

Be sure to have a play with the music editor!

Originally Posted by Digital Eel

Hot off the hyperwire: Digital Eel's very first game, Plasmaworm (quite possibly the coolest Snake game in the Five Galaxies), is now absolutely FREE! You get the FULL GAME plus level passwords with no strings attached. Check it out: 360 degree movement; in-game level, music and plasma editors; solo or 2-player co-op or deathmatch modes; guns; bosses; cosmic ducks; the works! CLICK HERE to download the 2MB installer. Click here to view system requirements. Time to get plasmangled!

I seem to recall that beating all the levels on high difficulty involved a whole lot of swearing, so if you feel like yelling abuse at your CRT for a while, go ahead and crank it up... ;)

I think OpenTTD should be up there. It's an open-source version of Transport tycoon deluxe, and it runs on XP with no stuffing around! To install, you need the original game files, which can be found here. The installer is here.

Telltale Games has just released Sam&Max Episode 4: Abe Lincoln Must Die as freeware. In my opinion, it's by far the best episode of the bunch and one of the funniest games I've ever had the pleasure to play. GO GRAB IT!